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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Dec 24, 2020
A thought on what the UCP’s elected members should find in their Christmas stockings tomorrow morning

A thought on what the UCP’s elected members should find in their Christmas stockings tomorrow morning

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It’s Christmas Eve. What should Santa Claus leave tonight for a government that knows the price of everything and the value of nothing? The aphorism is Oscar Wilde’s, but the great wit of the 19th
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Dec 23, 2020
When it comes to COVID-19, our premier talks like Churchill but walks like Chamberlain

When it comes to COVID-19, our premier talks like Churchill but walks like Chamberlain

7 mins
Alberta’s efforts to respond to the coronavirus pandemic with Jason Kenney in the driver’s seat are a lot like stand–up comedian Billy Connolly’s iconic routine about union negotiations, only without the profanity and without actually
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Dec 22, 2020
Calgary judge makes short work of bid for injunction to block COVID-19 restrictions

Calgary judge makes short work of bid for injunction to block COVID-19 restrictions

6 mins
A Calgary superior court judge yesterday made short work of the bid by the so-called Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms to get an emergency injunction blocking public health restrictions on activities likely to exacerbate the
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David Climenhaga
Canadian Politics
Dec 21, 2020
Leo Panitch, intellectual pillar of the Canadian left, dead at 75 of COVID-19

Leo Panitch, intellectual pillar of the Canadian left, dead at 75 of COVID-19

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Leo Victor Panitch, one of the intellectual pillars of the Canadian left and a leading scholar of the global depredations of neoliberalism, died Saturday from COVID-19. He was 75. Born into a working class Jewish
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David Climenhaga
Bestsellers
Dec 19, 2020
Sounds like Souvankham Thammavongsa’s How to Pronounce Knife and Barack Obama’s A Promised Land are the holiday books of 2020

Sounds like Souvankham Thammavongsa’s How to Pronounce Knife and Barack Obama’s A Promised Land are the holiday books of 2020

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Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020. The lists are compiled by the Book Publishers Association of
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Dec 18, 2020
When is a rule not a rule? When a maskless minister from Alberta’s United Conservative Party is breaking it

When is a rule not a rule? When a maskless minister from Alberta’s United Conservative Party is breaking it

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COVID-19 has now killed at least 790 Albertans.  It fell to Chief Medical Officer of Health Deena Hinshaw to break the dark news yesterday that 30 COVID-19 deaths had been reported in the previous 24
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Dec 17, 2020
Brace yourself, Alberta, Toyota’s plan to build electric cars with solid-state batteries sounds like the real thing

Brace yourself, Alberta, Toyota’s plan to build electric cars with solid-state batteries sounds like the real thing

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Word about solid-state batteries out of Toyota City last week created a buzz in the automotive press and got some headlines on social media, but I doubt very many people out here in Wild Rose
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Dec 16, 2020
Tire-screeching reversal on COVID-19 vaccine timing shows Canada’s Conservatives can turn on a dime!

Tire-screeching reversal on COVID-19 vaccine timing shows Canada’s Conservatives can turn on a dime!

9 mins
You can hardly blame the United Conservative Party’s leaders for trying to get out there as quickly as possible to take credit for the arrival of the first planeloads of COVID-19 vaccine in Alberta.  Premier
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David Climenhaga
Alberta Politics
Dec 15, 2020
10 months in the life of Jason Kenney: from bitter foe of illegal protests to fierce defender of protesters’ rights, or something

10 months in the life of Jason Kenney: from bitter foe of illegal protests to fierce defender of protesters’ rights, or something

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What a difference a year makes!  Not even a year: Ten months in the life of Jason Kenney.  Ten months ago, blockades in support of opposition by members of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation to pipeline
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